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266under Line and they now had him. He was about 6 months old and had been taken in by the Cat Protection League. They had found someone to take him but then they returned him. Would we be interested? They were just setting up a Brittany rescue scheme and he was the first one they had. Gabby and I drove down to Lincolnshire to look at him and of course brought him back. We called him Harry. I suspect the reason he had been rejected was that he dribbled terribly in the car. It was only when I took him on 2 LSEs a week apart that he got over that. Right from the start I said that he was my dog as the children had squabbled over Ginger a bit. Our garden was long and the garage was at the top. If he was out in the garden when we came back from somewhere he would hide under a bit of a bank and when you were close enough, he would charge, leaping up and grabbing your cuff to play. He was however, frightened of the hose pipe and being squirted so you only had to hold a bit of hose and as soon as he saw it he would be off to his safe bed. I could write so many stories about him but 2 stand out. One was at Christmas. We had finished our Christmas dinner and were in the front room when a neighbour from across the road, who could see into our house, phoned to ask us if we knew there was a dog on our dining table in the kitchen eating the remains of a goose. He would pull chairs out so that he could jump on the table. The second was when Alex was 18 she had a cake given her in the morning before going to school. She left it out and Harry got it. We found pieces of cake hidden all over the house.On the plus side, he would deter unwelcome visitors. Our main door was on the side of the house down a ginnel. If he saw anyone he did not know coming to the gate in the ginnel, he would run up some steps and then charge down to the gate growling viciously. Visitors were very quick to shut the gate and stand back. We did have to move our post box to the end of the garden to protect the postman. If he was indoors when someone approached the house, he would leap on the windowsill